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This is so performative. No one in the US government is trying to stop you from criticizing Trump. Ironically that's what you do need to do on the Chinese versi

• throw0101d 2y ago
  > No one in the US government is trying to stop you from criticizing Trump. "CBS weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture" (in her own private account, not when doing her job): * https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-58s-sam-kuffel-is-out-after-criticizing-elon-musk-arm-gesture/77883983007/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-... Self-censorship and capitulation is a thing (see MetaBook's changes in policy, Amazon removing DEI references). Czesław Miłosz wrote about in Communist Poland: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind The security detail on Fauci was yanked: * https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg49jz7v8no https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg49jz7v8no Trump ex-NSA Bolton had security detail yanked, even though there are credible security threats against him (people have already been arrested): * https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-security-detail-mike-pompeo-006229 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-security-deta... (It was under Biden that Pompeo and Bolton had the detail for the last few years, so even a member of the opposite party didn't hold a grudge against them.) One doesn't have to do things 'directly' to have something happen: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
• davidt84 2y ago
  There are none so blind as those who will not see.